Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
June 29, 2011 · Dave Koch
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the city of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.
June 28, 2011 · Dave Koch
PIXAR's Cars 2 is still fresh (and cleaning up!) in theaters, and PIXAR releases the first video trailer for the next big film, Brave.
June 28, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
Mikey Please's "The Eagleman Stag," produced at Britain's Royal College of Art, won the award for Best Animated Short Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the fest announced Sunday.
June 28, 2011 · Paul Anderson
Palm Springs International ShortFest named a Polish-Canadian production by Kamil Polak titled "The Lost Town of Switez" as the Best Animated Short at the festival. Other Winners Include: Interregnum The Cord-Woman The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Danny & Annie,
June 28, 2011 · Mr. Clevland
Tom Hanks was asked if anyone at Pixar has talked to him about voicing Woody again in a possible Toy Story 4. Hanks was being interviewed on BBC Breakfast News on Monday while overseas to promote his new movie Larry Crowne.
June 28, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
For the 12th time running, a Pixar film has opened to win the race at the box office. The Disney unit's Cars 2 defeated all challengers this weekend with a $68 million opener, according to studio estimates Sunday.
June 28, 2011 · Dave Koch
As Bugs Bunny reads a book on "How to Multiply," he is interrupted by a crying Easter Bunny who complains of sore feet. Bugs volunteers, "I'll deliver the Technicolor hen fruit for ya!" Reminded to "keep smiling," Bugs sings a gooney song, "I'm the Easter Rabbit, Hooray."
June 27, 2011 · Dave Koch
The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for.
June 26, 2011 · Dave Koch
Someone is turning the city's supermodels hideously fat. Is it the dubious modeling agent, Nairesec Rotcod? Or is it the dubious plastic surgeon, Dr. Cesarian? Or is it a third dubious person we haven't mentioned?
June 24, 2011 · Dave Koch
Pepé chases that cat all over the Alps.
June 23, 2011 · Dave Koch
Three kittens, denied milk as punishment for misbehaving, sail up into Tummy Trouble in a hot air balloon. Once in Tummy Trouble, they find it a land of natural milk springs and gushers.
June 22, 2011 · Dave Koch
Three kittens, denied milk as punishment for misbehaving, sail up into the Milky Way in a hot air balloon. Once in the Milky Way, they find it a land of natural milk springs and gushers.
June 21, 2011 · Paul Anderson
Sing it with us: What lives in the rainforest, under a tree? Spongiforma squarepantsii, a new species of mushroom almost as strange as its cartoon namesake. Its discovery in the forests of Borneo, says San Francisco State University researcher Dennis Desjardin, suggests that even some of the most charismatic characters in the fungal kingdom are yet to be identified.
June 21, 2011 · Dave Koch
Roger Rabbit is an animated cartoon star-a 'Toon'- at Maroon Cartoon Studios. Roger is suspected of the murder of Marvin Acme, owner of the Los Angeles subdivision of Toontown, and head of the renowned Cartoon Prop Company.
June 20, 2011 · Paul Anderson
"The Penguins Of Madagascar" received six Daytime Emmys -- including one for Outstanding Children's Animated Program -- during a grand gala Friday night for over 1,000 attendees at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles.
June 20, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to join the organization to 178 artists and executives -- including 13 animators -- who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.
June 20, 2011 · Dave Koch
A group of elves is in charge of adding color back to the landscape for spring! Old Man Winter fights back, pushing the lever to turn the "spring machine" off!
June 17, 2011 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Teletoon Canada inc. announced Tuesday its lineup of new and returning Canadian original series recently green-lit or currently in production. Fugget About It 9 Story Entertainment • 13 x 22 minutes Rocket Monkeys Breakthrough Entertainment • 26 x 22 minutes Crash Canyon (Eight additional episodes ordered) Detentionaire (Season Two) Nelvana • 13 x 22 minutes Mudpit (13 additional episodes ordered) Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc. • 13 x 22 minutes
June 17, 2011 · Paul Anderson
The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- which hands out the Oscars -- voted Tuesday to change the rules for nomination in the Animated Feature Film category.
June 17, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
Austria's State TV apologized Tuesday for airing a version of Walt Disney's Oscar-winning cartoon Three Little Pigs that, critics allege, strengthen anti-Jewish stereotypes present when it was made in 1933.